992 private quotes tagged religion

“No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.” — Abdul Kalam

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“If there is a God, he'll have to beg my forgiveness.”

Context:Carved on the wall of a concentration camp cell during WWII by a Jewish prisoner

Source:http://books.google.com/books?id=iUqKafcKRukC&lpg=PA149&d...

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“To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.” — Rowan Atkinson

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“Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.” — H. L. Mencken

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“I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.” — T. S. Eliot

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“Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.” — Helen Keller

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“If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.” — Khalil Gibran

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“He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.” — Thomas Paine

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“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.” — Albert Einstein

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“The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.” — Alan Watts

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“Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.” — Edmund Burke

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“I'm religiously opposed to religion.” — Victor Hugo

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“Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.” — Voltaire

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“Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.” — Charles Spurgeon

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